Its actually a fluids problem but I got stuck on the mathematical part.

The problem has water flowing out of a tank through an orifice whilst water is also flowing into the tank.

I ended up with an integral which I solved using a given result and I ended up with the above equation. It should be correct since my calculator worked it out and the answer matched but our lecturer is a bit fussy so I'm not sure if he'd except that in an exam.

I'll take a look at the link you sent, it seems somewhat familiar, maybe we did it last year in our maths unit. Hopefully something like that would be in the equation sheet we get, good luck trying to remember all the funny mathematical solutions to stuff that MIGHT come out. I get the feeling he is going to test us on mathematics as much us he is going to test us on our fluid's knowledge.

What nudged me towards the iteration method was the fact that the question states the we are to give an approximate answer; of course using a series solution would also yield and approximate value so maybe this is it.

Thanks, series totally slipped my mind, maybe its because I can't stand them

Quoting B737200 (Reply 2):What nudged me towards the iteration method was the fact that the question states the we are to give an approximate answer; of course using a series solution would also yield and approximate value so maybe this is it.